I honestly can’t see why they should have any fear, or feel the need to ‘calculate’ anything at this point in their careers. I just hope they are writing as true to their hearts as possible.
They’ve done any and everything they could possibly do within the rock category, aside from a really chill acoustic based album (although Warning was pretty close).
In all likelihood, Billie is going to be a grandfather on their next tour, and it would be really nice to see them create an album that reflects their maturity. Songs like Revolution Radio are great, but I really hope we can get something a little less political this time around, and maybe a little more family oriented and relatable. Politics are okay, but it just seems like we get more than our fair share of that on social media nowadays.

Yeah they should definitely abandon the name they worked their whole lives to create for themselves and managed to establish millions and millions of fans around the world because some people on the internet are salty about not liking the new sound they're going for. That definitely makes sense.

Well of course I don't enjoy it, when the songs don't sound anywhere near to the songs most of us loved. If they like to play together they could start a band with different name and see how many fans will actually listen to it. By staying with Blink name they're just giving us a false idea that they'll come up with songs that will be on the same level as their old songs were. You could also say that a band is allowed to grow musically and explore new things, but at the end of the day, we the fans want a certain sound which we're not getting now, and feel really dissapointed. And the fans are the ones who bring Blink the money.

Haha your posts are the best!
Ugh, but seriously. The record is going to be good. It’s like a cycle. Give the people what they want and what is safe for the masses and stadium tours (I.e. 21CB and RevRad) and do cool side projects to counterbalance for different creativity and smarter fans that want more and fun times (I.e. Foxboro Hot Tubs and the Longshot) and then Green Day think it’s a good idea to release something like the Trilogy that encompasses all of these things and then BOOM!!! Silly Green Day fans are pissed off and act ignorantly for years to come. Haha. Oops! Not all fans but some fans and mostly the ones who spew the most garbage comments.
And I almost forgot: Same with Warning between Nimrod and American Idiot. Warning was brilliant but not brilliantly well received. It was a think piece and new and a bit experimental and gearing up for something new. And people in general want their shit polished and delivered with no hassle or need to think too much. It pissed some people off.
I can’t wait for the new album! I bet it’s bad! Based on all the facts we have this next album we know nothing about is going to be terrible!

When you listen to Brain Stew after hiking in the countryside and you snort with laughter at "I'm counting sheep but running out"
When you hear Shout twice in one night on holiday and you think of the KFAD medley

Well, fair enough. There's a lot of false info in this thread. This being a fine example.
I hope Billie read our posts about the Bad Album and is now rewriting it to make it not bad.
However, I doubt Blink are rewriting theirs. I can't think of an example when a whole album was scraped because thr band realized it sucks after the first single. After the thing is done, the album belongs to the label and not the band anymore and labels want their mkney back so they release stuff.

Kinda related , but Mark Hoppus posted the new Blink 182 track on his Twitter a few weeks back. Man , it got slated . I reckon 90% of the comments were overwhelmingly negative.
Im pretty sure their album is done and ready to go too, do artists ever like go “oh shit, people hate our new stuff “ and try to delay or write new tracks based on initial feedback ?
Or typically is it a case of when the first single is released then it’s too late to do anything about it .

@jengd Thanks for that! Yeah, I've changed a lot since I wrote that 7 years ago. But my love for GD and Billie hasn't changed - only that I'm comfortable with my feelings now. Finding GDC has really helped me realize that I'm not alone and that my feelings are normal. Green Day is that special thing in my life and they always will be.

so Billie spelt Southampton "South Hampton" and I politely corrected him.
Ive now been discussing with Billie and Larry Livermore the 'fact' that London used to be called "Lon Don" and whether Loughborough is in Connecticut.
Not how I expected to start my Saturday

W_FInkThePlatypusHunter replied to Verycool99's topic in Green Day Chat

Y’all are getting way too worked up over this stuff. I love this band just as much as you all do, but there’s no point getting shitty on the internet about it. Let the people speculate what they want. The validity of the “4 Chan leaks” is questionable and is only really supported by the fact that the leaks about RevRad on there were true and 99% of the info from the leak was either lifted from here or at least matches what we know.
**This information was sourced from this forum and my own instagram investigating with no acknowledgement of the cursed “leaks”
The band has been seen together as early as Late November(live stream), and has been confirmed they’ve been working on the album since December(BJA live stream comment), followed by pictures and a video of Tre’s drums(the same ones identified by a GDC user seen in butch’s studio)at OTIS in January. A silence period and the first spotting of “songsforassholes” account were what we saw in February. March brings us the “A Love Story About Hate” post and the “Makin’ records” video from Butch’s Instagram where Tre’s Drums were identified.
My personal theory is that the album is either done or receiving the finishing touches. Fall isn’t that far away, maybe we’ll get a summer single.
***I had been previously misinformed that the RevRad Leaks came from 4Chan.